Former OYO Rooms head of technology joins Knowlarity

Admin| Mar 06, 2017 - 11:39 PM
India

BENGALURU: Cloud telephony company Knowlarity has appointed Ajay Shrivastava, as its chief technology officer. Shrivastava joins the Gurugram-­based company from OYO Rooms, where he served as the head of technology. Shrivastava comes with a over a decade of experience in technology products from companies including, Intel, Adobe, Microsoft, Expedia, SlideShare and LinkedIn.

As a part of his new role, Shrivastava will look after engineering and product development at the company.

“While my primary job will be to take care of the products and engineering team to ensure high speed execution, going forward as a company we will also be focussing on enhancing customer experience through our products,” Shrivastava told ET.

“It is important for B2B (business­to­business) companies to focus on customer experience as done in consumer­ facing businesses. This is extremely important for brand pull,” he said.

Shrivastava, who took on his new role last month will be replacing Bipul Parua, former CTO of Knowlarity who was with the company for about six years. Shrivastava said that the company is currently working on improving its current offerings in terms of providing better interface and customer experience.

In his last role at OYO, Shrivastava helped the company grow its technology team during the phase where the company grew from four to 200 cities. Shrivastava is an IIIT ­Bangalore graduate.

Knowlarity’s chief executive Ambrish Gupta said that Srivastava possessed “an immense amount of knowledge regarding the essential requirements for a startup business to remain technologically ahead of the game.”

“With his involvement, we are planning to make tech emerge as the fulcrum of Knowlarity’s operations,” Gupta said. Knowlarity competes with Exotel Techcom and Ozonetel Systems, among others.